Invasion of Ukraine: The United States asked to investigate Russia for war crimes in Mariupol

Kamala Harris gave a press conference in Warsaw (Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS) (POOL/)

At a press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, where he went to demonstrate US support for NATO’s eastern flank members, Harris expressed his outrage at the maternity hospital bombing and the bloody pregnant women scenesas well as other attacks on civilians.

“There definitely needs to be an investigation and we all need to be vigilant,” Harris said, noting that the UN has already started a process to review the claims. “I have no doubt that The eyes of the world are on this war and what Russia has done in terms of this aggression and these atrocities.”

Dead bodies are prepared before being put into body bags and buried in a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Corpses of civilians killed in Mariupol by shelling by Russian forces (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) (Evgeniy Maloletka/)
An injured pregnant woman walks down the stairs of a maternity hospital damaged by shells in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
An injured pregnant woman walks down the stairs of a maternity hospital damaged by shells in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) (Evgeniy Maloletka/)

For its part, Duda considered it “clear that in Ukraine the Russians are committing war crimes.” He added that in his opinion the invasion “has the characteristics of a genocide, its objective is to eliminate and destroy a nation”.

Harris praised the generosity of Poles in hosting nearly 1.5 million refugees since Russia invaded Ukraine last month.

A woman walks outside a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A woman tries to carry remains of personal belongings after the attack on the Mariupol mother and child hospital (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) (Evgeniy Maloletka/)
Ukrainian emergency workers and volunteers carry a pregnant woman through the wreckage of a shell-damaged maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian emergency workers and volunteers carry a pregnant woman through the wreckage of a maternity hospital damaged by shells in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) (Evgeniy Maloletka/)

“I have been watching and reading about the work of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, and for that I bring you the thanks of the American people,” Harris said during a previous meeting with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki hours after the lower house of the US Congress passed a spending bill that includes $13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine and its European allies.

The law includes $6.8 billion in aid to refugees.

In the next few hours, the vice president plans to meet with Ukrainian refugees who have fled to Poland since the beginning of the Russian invasion.

Harris will travel to Bucharest on Friday to meet Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.

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